Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/10/2025Taylor Swift’s never been bigger—and her music’s never been less compellingpitchfork.comTaylor Swift: The Life of a ShowgirlRead Anna Gaca’s review of the album. 2486
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 03/10/2025Read our 5 takeaways from Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirlpitchfork.com5 Takeaways From Taylor Swift’s New Album The Life of a ShowgirlThe 12th entry into the all-consuming Taylor Swift musical reality show cuts right to the chase: She’s head-over-heels in love, and she has some scores to settle. 1121
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/10/2025It is a sweet time to be Oklou. Pitchfork caught up with her on one of the hottest days of the summer to sip neon citronnade, talk about her debut album and its upcoming deluxe edition, and bask in the softness of new motherhood Read our cover story: pitchfork.com/features/cov... 0325
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/09/2025Presenting the 100 best rap albums of all timepitchfork.comThe 100 Best Rap Albums of All TimeWe rank the most essential and influential albums of this quintessentially American art form. 13346
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 11/08/2025No Joy's Bugland is named Best New Music 🏆pitchfork.comNo Joy: BuglandRead Sadie Sartini Garner’s review of the album. 64510
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 10/08/2025The Sunday Review ☀️ Toni Braxton's Secrets Today, we revisit the R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and sultry quiet storm that reconciled Braxton’s soul roots with a sexier, more youthful edgepitchfork.comToni Braxton: SecretsRead Clover Hope’s review of the album. 0192
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 10/08/2025The members of U2—Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.—have each shared their own individual statements on Israel’s ongoing starvation of the Gaza Strippitchfork.comU2 Release Statements on Israel and GazaWe want our audience to know where we each stand,” Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. wrote before sharing individual statements 3335
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 07/08/2025The kind of music you make when the future is uncertain and you want to keep the end at bay for as long as you canpitchfork.comThe Black Keys: No Rain, No FlowersRead Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album. 0173
Reposted by PitchforkStephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Over at @pitchfork.com, I review No Rain, No Flowers, the album where the Black Keys recover from a tumultuous year by steering toward the middle of the road. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...pitchfork.comThe Black Keys: No Rain, No FlowersRead Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album. 1223
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 07/08/2025Perhaps the most interesting frictions in the Ethel Cain universe play out in the relationships between the character, her author, and their shared audiencepitchfork.comEthel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love YouRead Olivia Horn’s review of the album. 2112
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025Revisit our Sunday Review of a Perfect 10 international breakthroughpitchfork.comKing Sunny Adé: Juju MusicRead Will Hermes’ review of the album. 1274
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025Here are 20 picks for Song of the Summerpitchfork.com20 Contenders for the 2025 Song of the SummerNot sure if there’s really a Song of the Summer? Take a look at our favorites of the season, including “Whim Whamiee,” bops by Sabrina Carpenter and PinkPantheress, some egg-punk, and more. 072
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025Sony Music Entertainment is suing Rhapsody International, the parent company of streaming service Napsterpitchfork.comSony Music Sues Napster Over Missed Royalty PaymentsThe company is claiming $9.2 million in unpaid royalties and a potential $36 million in damages from copyright infringement. 082
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025It’s Never Over has no interest in painting Jeff Buckley as a doomed, tragic figure, but as an artist who somehow foresaw his brief life—and devoured the world, while he couldpitchfork.comIt’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Review: The Man, Not the MythWith her new documentary, director and producer Amy Berg presents the late Jeff Buckley as a bottomless vessel for creativity—and rejects the idea that he was fated for a tragic end. 13112
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025Topshelf (@topshelfrecords.com) has launched a donation initiative to help aid efforts in Gazapitchfork.comTopshelf Records Launches Donation Initiative for Aid in GazaThe label behind Ratboys, Ekko Astral, and more will match donations to the Sameer Project for the next 10 months 04924
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025xaviersobased refines his singularly unrefined style on a short, slaphappy new EP featuring a standout song with OsamaSonpitchfork.comXaviersobased: once more EPRead Olivier Lafontant’s review of the EP. 041
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025A talent-stacked double mixtape that’s like a crystallized memory of the club in the mid-2010spitchfork.comMetro Boomin: Metro Boomin Presents: A Futuristic Summa (Hosted by DJ Spinz)Read Matthew Ritchie’s review of the album. 010
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 05/08/2025“Comafields” is one of the most affecting tracks he’s given us in a while—ambient trance as a weighted blanket for the soul Our track reviewpitchfork.comBurial: “Comafields”The producer re-emerges with a 12-minute mini-suite suggestive of revelation or near-death experience. 0295
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 05/08/2025Algernon Cadwallader is back 🥲pitchfork.comAlgernon Cadwallader Announce Tour and First Album in 14 Years, Share Video for New SongTrying Not to Have a Thought, the influential emo band’s third LP, comes out next month on Saddle Creek 1282
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 05/08/2025Heatmiser's Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary) is named Best New Reissue 🏆pitchfork.comHeatmiser: Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary)Read Jayson Greene’s review of the album. 0282
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 04/08/2025The Armed's sixth album faces down the apocalypse with some of its heaviest music yet: visceral, vital, and filled with desperate, righteous angerpitchfork.comThe Armed: THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYEDRead Alex Robert Ross’ review of the album. 0172
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 03/08/2025We're revisiting one of the strangest, most exhilarating products of the post-Nevermind alternative rock boom, the 1994 record by D.C. hardcore alchemists Shudder to Think Read @philipsherburne.bsky.social's Sunday Review ⬇️pitchfork.comShudder to Think: Pony Express RecordRead Philip Sherburne’s review of the album. 0263
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/08/2025Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde playwright and theater director who collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga, and more, has diedpitchfork.comRobert Wilson, Boundary-Pushing Playwright and Director Who Collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, and Lady Gaga, Dies at 83Wilson, whose work was often characterized by distinct lighting and the expansion of time, worked with art world luminaries like Laurie Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Allen Ginsberg, and... 0186
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/08/2025Miimii's “Sé Miimii” is named Best New Track 🏆pitchfork.comMiimii: “Sé Miimii”Miimii is a rising talent in the bouyon scene, one of the fastest-growing genres in the Caribbean. 040
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/08/2025Chappell Roan treats an open wound with the sounds of the Cocteau Twins, the Sundays, and the Cranberries Read our track review of "The Subway"pitchfork.comChappell Roan: “The Subway”Channeling Cocteau Twins and the Cranberries, Chappell Roan puts her spin on plaintive 1980s dream pop. 0210
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/08/2025"It was the only time in my life I saw her care about anything happening on a television. Sometimes, I even caught her humming the beat to herself while she fried johnnycakes on the stove" Alphonse remembers his grandmother and her obsession with Fat Joe and Terror Squad’s biggest hit. Read more ⬇️pitchfork.comOn My Grandmother and Her Favorite Rap SongAlphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse remem... 042
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/08/2025Cindy Lee has brought their entire catalog exclusively to Bandcamp, where it is now available to stream, download, and pre-order on vinylpitchfork.comCindy Lee Fully Leaves Spotify and Brings Catalog to Bandcamp: ListenA comprehensive reissue campaign will also bring every Cindy Lee album, including rarity Cat o’ Nine Tails, to vinyl 0537
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/08/2025A shoegaze star born on TikTok scales up her sound with a full-length debut that’s beautiful on the surface but uninterested in challenging the genre’s priorspitchfork.comWisp: If Not WinterRead Kieran Press-Reynolds’ review of the album. 040
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025Together’s cast and special effects department alone could make for a substantive horror classic, but the script is freighted with distracting cliches and errant plot developmentspitchfork.comTogether Review: Love the One You’re WithThe body horror debut from writer-director Michael Shanks boasts delightfully gruesome practical SFX, but gets bogged down in horror cliches. 040
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025On his debut album, the Detroit rapper wrestles with his home scene’s growing influence on mainstream rap. He offers a portrait of his city that’s both loving and critical, grounded in stories that couldn’t have come from anywhere elsepitchfork.comLelo: New DetroitRead Alphonse Pierre’s review of the album. 020
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025Brian Eno has announced Together for Palestine, a concert at London’s Wembley Arena raising funds for families in Gazapitchfork.comBrian Eno Announces Together for Palestine Benefit Concert in LondonEno is executive producing “a night of music, reflection and hope” at Wembley Arena, with a lineup to be announced 3255120
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025The Baton Rouge rapper’s first release since his legal pardon is a hyper-emotive data dump that churns through hunger, bitterness, boasts, and torment at breakneck speedspitchfork.comYoungBoy Never Broke Again: MASARead Matthew Ritchie’s review of the album. 020
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025Rock music's great drummer reshuffle continuespitchfork.comFoo Fighters and Nine Inch Nails Swap Drummers, Switching Josh Freese for Ilan RubinFreese, the former Nine Inch Nails drummer who replaced the late Taylor Hawkins, is back with Trent Reznor’s crew, while Rubin joins Dave Grohl and company 063
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025Here are some methods for scraping good music from the data wastelandpitchfork.comHow to Dig for Music Without SpotifyRabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week’s column... 1186
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025On the followup to the pair’s 2020 collaboration, Gibbs sounds unusually animated. The album is an effective demonstration of the rapper’s formalist technique—and prickly personalitypitchfork.comFreddie Gibbs / The Alchemist: Alfredo 2Read Paul A. Thompson’s review of the album. 030
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025Revisit our Sunday Review of a landmark album: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu... 0222
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025The Queens-born rapper is deep in his comfort zone on his latest project, sounding philosophical, charismatic, and imaginative as ever—if occasionally a little too cozypitchfork.comHomeboy Sandman / Sonnyjim: Soli Deo GloriaRead Dean Van Nguyen’s review of the album. 031
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025Idles have shared “Rabbit Run,” a new song that they made for Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming crime caper Caught Stealingpitchfork.comListen to Idles’ New Song for Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing MovieThe British band recorded “Rabbit Run” and three other tracks for the new film starring Austin Butler, Bad Bunny, Zoë Kravitz, Action Bronson, and others 082
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025Sleep tight, grim rite, we have 200 albums from the 2000s you can revisit here: pitchfork.com/features/lis... 📷 by Wendy Redfern/Redfern 1234
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025The Antlers have announced their first new album in four years. Listen to the lead singlepitchfork.comThe Antlers Announce New Album Blight, Share New SongMurder ballad “Carnage” leads the indie-rock band’s first full-length in four years 080
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025Sound design studio Slate + Ash has released a new virtual guitar based on sounds designed by avant-garde guitaristspitchfork.comStephen O’Malley, Oren Ambarchi, and More Help Make New Virtual GuitarSeveral leading avant-garde guitarists, also including David Torn and Bill Horist, collaborated with Randall Dunn to design sounds for the new “Ruins” software instrument from Slate + Ash 0101
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025On a new EP recorded with Nashville songwriter Luke Roberts, the guitarist picks up a bittersweet love song, revisits Constant Hitmaker, and covers Beach Housepitchfork.comKurt Vile: Classic Love (ep)Read Stephen M. Deusner’s review of the EP. 0101
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025The long-rumored collection of Ray of Light remixes was a thrilling prospect. The reality is slight and ill-considered, neither an authoritative survey nor a dynamic reinventionpitchfork.comMadonna: Veronica ElectronicaRead Owen Myers’ review of the album. 060
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 29/07/2025Nick Cave found that AI-animated photographs of Presley “had an uncanny quality, as if he had been raised from the dead, and the crucifixion-resurrection images at the end were both shocking and deeply affecting.”pitchfork.comNick Cave, No Longer So Angry About AI, Shares New “Tupelo” Video Starring an AI ElvisOn the Bad Seeds classic’s 40th anniversary, the director Andrew Dominik has persuaded his longtime collaborator that not all artificial intelligence is “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human” 291
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 29/07/2025Listen to a new single from Animal Collectivepitchfork.comAnimal Collective Share New Song “Buddies on the Blackboard”The B-side to “Love on the Big Screen” 292
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 29/07/2025Pairing Laurel Canyon splendor with a surreal perspective, the Wand frontman’s latest solo album offers wry portraits of the strange characters and bleak situations that populate modern lifepitchfork.comCory Hanson: I Love PeopleRead Ryan Meehan’s review of the album. 073
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 29/07/2025Some egg punk for your Tuesdaypitchfork.comSnõõper Announce New Album Worldwide, Share Video for New SongThe Nashville egg-punk band returns with its second LP for Third Man Records 060
Reposted by PitchforkRyan Meehan @cryinmeehan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025cory hanson has made another jukebox of bouncy & beautiful tunes about our contemporary psychosis. i wrote about it for @pitchfork.com: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...pitchfork.comCory Hanson: I Love PeopleRead Ryan Meehan’s review of the album. 031
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 29/07/2025You can have 17 new Hayley Williams songs as a treatpitchfork.comParamore’s Hayley Williams Uploads 17 New Songs to Her Website“Mirtazapine,” which she debuted on Nashville radio station WNXP last week, is also included 2302
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 29/07/2025Chuquimamani-Condori's hard-drive dump of DJ edits spins together Andean folk, bro country, pop, tecnocumbia, and more. Their hyper-charged mashups are searching, self-aware, and frequently thrillingpitchfork.comChuquimamani-Condori: EditsRead Sam Goldner’s review of the album. 031